The story here was just a little too boring and the humor just not funny enough. It added up to a film that was too boring to watch. That was further surprising because the cast was good: Cary Grant, Lariaine Day, Charles Bickford and Henry Stephenson. Grant may be the only big "star" in that group but I've always found Bickford and Stephenson to play interesting guys and Day had to have about the prettiest eyes I've ever seen. They just sparkle and it makes her face mesmerizing at times.
Unfortunately, that wasn't enough to make me impressed over this film. It's simply too dated, humor-wise. I don't know how it was received in 1943, whether audiences laughed a lot at this but, unlike dramas, westerns, crime movies, etc., comedies can look very dated very quickly and today's audiences would not laugh at this.
Unfortunately, that wasn't enough to make me impressed over this film. It's simply too dated, humor-wise. I don't know how it was received in 1943, whether audiences laughed a lot at this but, unlike dramas, westerns, crime movies, etc., comedies can look very dated very quickly and today's audiences would not laugh at this.